---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Gardiner, William
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 17
number: 3
published: 1914-01
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'William Gardiner, "The Glorious Day. A Hymn Set to Music," *Improvement Era* 17, no. 3 (January 1914): 199–200.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1703unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera1703unse
start_page: 199
end_page: 200
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1914-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1703unse
  publication_year: 1914
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1914, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# The Glorious Day. A Hymn Set to Music

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The Glorious Day
Belmont, C. M.
William Gardiner, 1812
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The glorious day is rolling on — All glor-y
to the Lord —
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When, fair as at cre-a-tion's dawn, The earth will be re - stored.
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fill
A perfect harvest then will crown
The renovated soil.
And rich abundance drop around
Without corroding toil.
For, in its own primeval bloom
Will nature smile again,
And blossoms, fragrant with perfume,
Adorn the verdant' plain.
The Saints will then, with pure
delight,
Possess the holy land,
And walk with Jesus Christ in
white,
And in his presence stand.
What glorious prospects! Can we
claim
These hopes, and call them ours?
Yes, if, through faith in Jesus' name,
We conquer Satan's powers;
If we, like Jesus, bear the cross,
Like him despise the shame,
And count all earthly things but
dross,
For his most holy name.
Then, when the powers of darkness
rage,
With glory in our view.
In Jesus' strength let us engage,
To press to Zion through.
For Zion will like Fden bloom,
And Jesus come to reign;
The Saints, immortal from the tomb,
With angels meet again.
— Eliza R. Snow.

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I U'TAIN GEORGE L. GRAM